executable mapping. Up to now, only R+W was requested from pmap_kenter_pa.
On most CPUs, we get an executable mapping anyway, due to lack of
hardware support or due to lazyness in the pmap implementation. Only
alpha does obey VM_PROT_EXECUTE, afaics.
little or no swap.
- even on a severe swap shortage, if we have some amount of file-backed pages,
don't bother to kill processes.
- if all pages in queue will be likely reactivated, just give up
page type balancing rather than spinning unnecessarily.
- don't use managed mappings/backing objects for wired memory allocations.
save some resources like pv_entry. also fix (most of) PR/27030.
- simplify kernel memory management API.
- simplify pmap bootstrap of some ports.
- some related cleanups.
- allocate kva for vm_map_entry from the map itsself and
remove the static limit, MAX_KMAPENT.
- keep merged entries for later splitting to fix allocate-to-free problem.
PR/24039.
- for in-kernel maps, disable map entry merging so that
unmap operations won't block. (workaround for PR/24039)
- for in-kernel maps, allocate kva for vm_map_entry from
the map itsself and eliminate MAX_KMAPENT and
uvm_map_entry_kmem_pool.
uvm_km_valloc1(), and use it to express all of
uvm_km_valloc()
uvm_km_valloc_wait()
uvm_km_valloc_prefer()
uvm_km_valloc_prefer_wait()
uvm_km_valloc_align()
in terms of it by macro expansion.
the `# swap page in use' and `# swap page only' counters. However, at the
time of swap device removal we can no longer figure out how many of the
bad swap pages are actually also `swap only' pages.
So, on swap I/O errors arrange things to not include the bad swap pages in
the `swpgonly' counter as follows: uvm_swap_markbad() decrements `swpgonly'
by the number of bad pages, and the various VM object deallocation routines
do not decrement `swpgonly' for swap slots marked as SWSLOT_BAD.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2003/05/08/0068.html
There were some side-effects that I didn't anticipate, and fixing them
is proving to be more difficult than I thought, do just eject for now.
Maybe one day we can look at this again.
Fixes PR kern/21517.
space is advertised to UVM by making virtual_avail and virtual_end
first-class exported variables by UVM. Machine-dependent code is
responsible for initializing them before main() is called. Anything
that steals KVA must adjust these variables accordingly.
This reduces the number of instances of this info from 3 to 1, and
simplifies the pmap(9) interface by removing the pmap_virtual_space()
function call, and removing two arguments from pmap_steal_memory().
This also eliminates some kludges such as having to burn kernel_map
entries on space used by the kernel and stolen KVA.
This also eliminates use of VM_{MIN,MAX}_KERNEL_ADDRESS from MI code,
this giving MD code greater flexibility over the bounds of the managed
kernel virtual address space if a given port's specific platforms can
vary in this regard (this is especially true of the evb* ports).
uvm_map(). Change uvm_map() to honnor UVM_KMF_NOWAIT. For this, change
amap_extend() to take a flags parameter instead of just boolean for
direction, and introduce AMAP_EXTEND_FORWARDS and AMAP_EXTEND_NOWAIT flags
(AMAP_EXTEND_BACKWARDS is still defined as 0x0, to keep the code easier to
read).
Add a flag parameter to uvm_mapent_alloc().
This solves a problem a pool_get(PR_NOWAIT) could trigger a pool_get(PR_WAITOK)
in uvm_mapent_alloc().
Thanks to Chuck Silvers, enami tsugutomo, Andrew Brown and Jason R Thorpe
for feedback.
return failure if swap is full and there are no free physical pages.
have malloc() use this flag if M_CANFAIL is passed to it.
use M_CANFAIL to allow amap_extend() to fail when memory is scarce.
this should prevent most of the remaining hangs in low-memory situations.
- fix the loaned case in uvm_pagefree().
- redo uvmexp.swpgonly accounting to work with page loaning.
add an assertion before each place we adjust uvmexp.swpgonly.
- fix uvm_km_pgremove() to always free any swap space associated with
the range being removed.
- get rid of UVM_LOAN_WIRED flag. instead, we just make sure that
pages loaned to the kernel are never on the page queues.
this allows us to assert that pages are not loaned and wired
at the same time.
- add yet more assertions.
- remove special treatment of pager_map mappings in pmaps. this is
required now, since I've removed the globals that expose the address range.
pager_map now uses pmap_kenter_pa() instead of pmap_enter(), so there's
no longer any need to special-case it.
- eliminate struct uvm_vnode by moving its fields into struct vnode.
- rewrite the pageout path. the pager is now responsible for handling the
high-level requests instead of only getting control after a bunch of work
has already been done on its behalf. this will allow us to UBCify LFS,
which needs tighter control over its pages than other filesystems do.
writing a page to disk no longer requires making it read-only, which
allows us to write wired pages without causing all kinds of havoc.
- use a new PG_PAGEOUT flag to indicate that a page should be freed
on behalf of the pagedaemon when it's unlocked. this flag is very similar
to PG_RELEASED, but unlike PG_RELEASED, PG_PAGEOUT can be cleared if the
pageout fails due to eg. an indirect-block buffer being locked.
this allows us to remove the "version" field from struct vm_page,
and together with shrinking "loan_count" from 32 bits to 16,
struct vm_page is now 4 bytes smaller.
- no longer use PG_RELEASED for swap-backed pages. if the page is busy
because it's being paged out, we can't release the swap slot to be
reallocated until that write is complete, but unlike with vnodes we
don't keep a count of in-progress writes so there's no good way to
know when the write is done. instead, when we need to free a busy
swap-backed page, just sleep until we can get it busy ourselves.
- implement a fast-path for extending writes which allows us to avoid
zeroing new pages. this substantially reduces cpu usage.
- encapsulate the data used by the genfs code in a struct genfs_node,
which must be the first element of the filesystem-specific vnode data
for filesystems which use genfs_{get,put}pages().
- eliminate many of the UVM pagerops, since they aren't needed anymore
now that the pager "put" operation is a higher-level operation.
- enhance the genfs code to allow NFS to use the genfs_{get,put}pages
instead of a modified copy.
- clean up struct vnode by removing all the fields that used to be used by
the vfs_cluster.c code (which we don't use anymore with UBC).
- remove kmem_object and mb_object since they were useless.
instead of allocating pages to these objects, we now just allocate
pages with no object. such pages are mapped in the kernel until they
are freed, so we can use the mapping to find the page to free it.
this allows us to remove splvm() protection in several places.
The sum of all these changes improves write throughput on my
decstation 5000/200 to within 1% of the rate of NetBSD 1.5
and reduces the elapsed time for "make release" of a NetBSD 1.5
source tree on my 128MB pc to 10% less than a 1.5 kernel took.
This will allow improvements to the pmaps so that they can more easily defer expensive operations, eg tlb/cache flush, til the last possible moment.
Currently this is a no-op on most platforms, so they should see no difference.
Reviewed by Jason.
an spl-protected "interrupt safe map" list, simply require that callers
of uvm_fault() never call us in interrupt context (MD code must make
the assertion), and check for interrupt-safe maps in uvmfault_lookup()
before we lock the map.
- pmap_enter()
- pmap_remove()
- pmap_protect()
- pmap_kenter_pa()
- pmap_kremove()
as described in pmap(9).
These calls are relatively conservative. It may be possible to
optimize these a little more.
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